Board 2021-2023
BOT Officers:
President: Takanori Ikeda, MD (Japan)
Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Toho University Faculty of Medicine / Medical Center
Tokyo, Japan
President-Elect: Vassilios Vassilikos, MD (Greece)
Professor in Cardiology, 3rd Cardiology Department
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Greece
Vice-President: Adrian Baranchuk, MD (Canada)
Professor of Medicine, Department of Cardiology
Queen’s University School of Medicine
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Immediate Past President: Iwona Cygankiewicz, MD (Poland)
Professor of Cardiology, Department of Electrocardiology
Medical University of Łódź
Łódź, Poland
Treasurer: Rod Passman, MD (USA)
Jules J Reingold Professor of Electrophysiology, Director of Arrhythmia Research
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois USA
Secretary: Richard L. Verrier, PhD (USA)
Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Environmental Health
Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA, USA
BOT Members:
Christian Jons, MD (Denmark)
Staff, Department of Cardiology
The Heart Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital
Copenhagen, Denmark
Thomas Klingenheben, MD (Germany)
Professor of Medicine, Interventional Cardiology
Goethe University Frankfurt and Cardiology Practice Bonn
Bonn, Germany
Yi-Gang Li, MD (China)
Director, Department of Cardiology and Cardiac Arrhythmia Center
Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Shanghai, China
Manlio F. Márquez Murillo, MD (Mexico)
Deputy Director Clinical Research
National Institute of Cardiology Ignacio Chavez
Mexico City, Mexico
Samuel L. Johnston, MD (USA)
Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Carver College of Medicne, University of Iowa Health Care
Iowa City, IA, USA
Krzysztof Kaczmarek, MD (Poland)
Head, Electrophysiology Laboratory
Central University Hospital, Medical University of Łódź
Łódź, Poland
Mori Krantz, MD (USA)
Clinician Scientist, CPC Clinical Research,
Aurora, CO, USA
Naohiko Takahashi, MD (Japan)
Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiology and Clinical Examination
Oita University Faculty of Medicine,
Yufu City, Japan
Gary Tse, MD (China)
Professor of Cardiology, Tianjin Institute of Cardiology
Second Hospital, Tianjin Medical University
Tianjin, China
Wojciech Zareba, MD (USA)
Professor of Medicine, Cardiology Division
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY, USA
Board Liaison Officer: Niraj Varma, MD (USA)
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Main Campus, Willoughby Hills Family Health Center
Cleveland, OH, USA
Editor-in-Chief ANE: Mark C. Haigney, MD (USA)
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Director of Cardiology
F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine
Bethesda, MD, USA
Past Presidents:
Antonio Bayes de Luna (BOT Emeritus)
Shlomo Stern (1988-1992)
Harold Kennedy (1992-1994)
Arthur Moss (1994-1996)
Vinzenz Hombach (1996-1998)
Branco Mautner (1998-2000)
Prakash Deedwania (2000-2003)
Ali Oto (2003-2005)
Wojciech Zareba (2005-2007)
Sergio Dubner (2007-2009)
Peter Stone (2009-2011 and 2011-2013)
Marek Malik 2011 (resigned in August 2011)
Ryszard Piotrowicz (2013-2015)
Jonathan Steinberg (2015-2017)
Niraj Varma (2017-2019)
Iwona Cygankiewicz (2019-2021)
